Reports of looting led archaeologists to explore an easily overlooked cave in northern Mexico. Eventually, the team found several 500-year-old burials in a hard-to-reach chamber of the cave.

Archaeologists have long thought that monumental architecture—large, human-built structures that emphasize visibility—were products of societies with power structures, including social hierarchy, ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool for stone toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age, demonstrating advanced ...

Researchers from Ghent University worked with artists to reconstruct the face of a woman who lived in Belgium 10,500 years ...

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA—Representational art discovered in a cave on Karampuang Hill on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago by a team of researchers led by ...

In recent years, researchers have been uncovering prehistoric cave art in remote locations across Indonesia. In 2018, they discovered the oldest-known depiction of animals in a cave on the island of ...

The world’s oldest cave art has been uncovered in the Indonesian Islands of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian scientists, showing an incredible 51,200-year-old painting of a wild pig and ...

The world's oldest cave art has been uncovered, showing an incredible 51,200-year-old painting that may change our understanding of visual storytelling. By Emily Wright 10:00, Sun, Jul 7, 2024 ...

THE OLDEST evidence of storytelling cave art has been discovered dating back more than 51,000 years. Experts were stunned to find the figurative cave painting on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi. … ...